Cryophallion writes: "After many years of development, gimp 2.8 is finally released. Among it's features the oft desired single window mode, layer groups, and many other massive improvements including some of the gimpui teams' work. This might be the release that helps make the gimp a much more user friendly experience for newcomers, and has features that are rivalling those of certain exceptionally expensive commercial programs. While the porting th GEGL is still ongoing (and recently reported to have made massive advances made), this is a major step forward for one of the premier open source projects."